Karsten Knese

These are all valid comments and I can second them. However, the motivation here was slightly inverse. I know we have a strict separation between the hardware interfaces and the...

exceptions are generally not RT safe and have further implications with them, so I am personally in favor of using return codes. What we do quite a fair deal in...

what does this mean to remove the non-tests? There aren't any inbuilt linters for python. THese files are unfortunately copied in every package which has python code, e.g: https://github.com/ros2/demos/tree/master/demo_nodes_py/test On...

sure, I am happy to have a better solution for this - as long as it's kind of transparently incorporated so that I can be able to test locally and...

TL;DR: Make sure the joint state broadcaster is loaded and running! The error message is maybe not as clear as it could be, but its cause is relatively simple and...

ros2_control in Foxy had ABI breaking changes. We ran into the same problem the other day. In order to fix your problem you have essentially two options: * Change your...

I don't think it makes sense to parse xacro files. I think it makes sense to expect the `robot_description` to be presented as xml and therefore be parsed as such.

@destogl the launch files described in the readme don't seem to exist

> Could not find a package configuration file provided by "test_msgs" That's not an issue with the demos. That's pretty normal if you compile your packages from source as their...

I've encountered this as well and I feel we should update some documentation on this. The system is not broken, it's just not fully activated yet. If you look into...